Part of the Global Plot to Expose Moonbats, conspiracy nuts, and anti-Semites, especially the Jewish anti-Semitic variety.
The leftwing Neo-Nazi web magazine Counterpunch has described Plaut thus: "One of the most pernicious writers is Steven Plaut, a man who could be thought of as Israel's Daniel Pipes."

Israel's fascist Left, led by its anti-democratic academic Left, isdeclaring war on the Jews.

In Haaretz today, Hebrew University Professor Daniel Blatman writesthe most anti-Semitic article that has yet to appear in the Israelimainstream media. Blatman claims to be a Holocaust scholar, and isemployed by the Hebrew University at the Harman Institute ofContemporary Jewry.In his ranting anti-Semitic article, Blatman bleats: "No society isimmune to deterioration into violent racism. In the Israel of today,we can observe quite a few conditions whose presence in othersocieties and among other peoples led to racial separation, ethniccleansing and even genocide. There are minority groups (Arabs andforeigners ) who are ostracized by the majority, a growing racistideology, attempts to limit the political activities and civil rightsof the minority, a tense security situation and strong politicalelements with vested interests in territorial expansion."Blatman's rant is part of the current wave of Jewish self-hatred inIsrael under which leftist Jews insist that Israel's refusal to allowunlimited numbers of Africans seeking better-paying jobs to enter thecountry is the moral equivalent of the Nazi Holocaust of Jews.Hundreds of Africans "protested" over the weekend in protestsfeaturing signs in Hebrew written for them by leftist Israelis, makingexactly such comparisons. Blatman joins them, insisting that Israelin 2011 is exactly the same as Germany in 1932.Blatman's entire rant can be read here:http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/1932-is-already-here-1.332974 . If he were really alive in 1932, he would be leading crowds ofGerman protesters denouncing Jewish racists inside Germany underminingfraternal relations there. Blatman is a groupie of the old socialistBund, which is his academic specialty, an anti-Zionist group ofwould-be Jewish socialists in Europe, most of whom were exterminatedby the Soviets. Blatman's email is Daniel.Blatman@huji.ac.ilIf you want to tell the heads of the Hebrew University what you thinkof Blatman's anti-Jewish ranting, write toHebrew University:President of the Hebrew UniversityProf. Menachem Ben-SassonEmail hupres@cc.huji.ac.ilThe Hebrew University of JerusalemMt. Scopus, Jerusalem 91905Tel. 02-6584143, 02-5881905Fax. 02-5811023Rector of the Hebrew UniversityProf. Sarah StroumsaEmail stroums@vms.huji.ac.ilSarah.Stroumsa@huji.ac.ilstroums@huji.ac.ilThe Hebrew University of JerusalemMt. Scopus, Jerusalem 91905Telephone: 02-6719698, 02-5883676URL: http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~stroums/Hebrew University "Friends of" Offices:http://www.huji.ac.il/huji/eng/friends_e.htm

2. Haaretz reports that a group of "intellectuals" is calling onNetanyahu to fire all rabbis who signed the earlier call for Jews notto rent or sell property to Arabs in predominantly Jewish areas.Among the signers were Prof. Joseph Algassi (Tel Aviv University,philosophy), a leading proponent of the "One-State Solution" in whichIsrael will be obliterated and replaced by a Rwanda-style bi-nationalstate with an Arab majority (seehttp://www.tau.ac.il/~agass/joseph-papers/palestine.pdf) . Alsosigning was Prof. Haim Adler from the Hebrew University (education),and Prof. Aliza Shenhar, the leftist head of the Galilee College (whowas a Rector at Haifa University). None of these same people calledfor firing leftwing anti-Zionist professors in Israel who call onpeople not to rent and sell property to Jews in East Jerusalem.

3. The Gagosian Gallery in New York (with branches elsewhere) is aleading gallery for sale of art. In recent days the gallery featuredthe work by German painter Anselm Kiefer. See thishttp://www.gagosian.com/artists/anselm-kiefer/ Born in 1945, much ofhis work is devoted towards denunciation of Germany's fascist past.He is also passionately pro-Israel. His exhibit at the Gagosian wasentitled Next Year in Jerusalem. See this:http://www.gagosian.com/posters/2010_anselm-kiefer_next-year-in-jerusalem-poster/Now it seems that a German artist who is friendly to Jews was too muchfor the local leftist anarchist anarcho-fascists in the greater NewYork Metropolitan area. A group of them wearing fascist black shirtsdecided to "protest" the holding of a pro-Jewish art exhibit at thegallery, and showed up with signs and tee shirts denouncing Israel andendorsing the "flotilla" of jihad terrorists that attacked Israel.When ejected, the "protesters" got violent and one was injured. Howdare any Germans express pro-Jewish sentiments!!A detailed report on this appears in the New Yorker athttp://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/12/gagosian-jerusalem-protest.html

4. Ordinarily it is hard to get Israel's Literary Left upset aboutanything besides the fact that Israel has yet to agree to beannihilated by the "Palestinians."

But this week about 200 or so have signed a petition being places allover the Israeli mainstream media, and – amazingly – it has nothing todo with demolishing Israel, granting the "Palestinians" a "right ofreturn," nor setting up a nice Palestinian state.

The petition byf the Literary Leftists is a demand that the governmentfix prices of books to allow them to earn higher royalties. It is ledby Amos Oz, David Grossman, and A.B. Yehoshua.

You see, markets for books in Israel, like markets for everythingeverywhere, set prices based on supply and demand. The LiteraryLeftists are upset that the prices set by the market are "too low" fortheir tastes. Basically, they have sunk to the moral depravity of thedairy lobby or the poultry lobby and are insisting that prices befixed Bolshevik-style when their own interests are at stake.

The Literary Leftists do not like markets. Their next petition willbe a demand that agriculture be collectivized in Israel by partyKommissars so that Israeli writers can buy their food at nicecontrolled price levels while they are working on their new booksabout how Israel is becoming a racist nazi state.